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Visitors
Flock to Miami, Fort Lauderdale
Join
us for the First Annual Travel + Adventure Business
Expo & Conference, Miami, FL, Jan.
21-23
 Our
last
visit to Florida was overnight from Seattle aboard
US Air, for the America Travel Market in Orlando.
Our editors plan to return for the Annual Golf
Travel Market this year in St. Petersburg to show
off our Golf Supermap 2000 - fourth in a series.
It's easy to see why so many Eastern Canadians,
Quebecers in particular, are turned on to this area
as a Winter Escape; so now thanks to the Open Skies
agreement, and a variety of travel options
available, its Western Canada's turn. We'll be
talking about Florida hotel, resort and
transportation packages, plus many other delightful
perks. More on this pleasant topic to come.
http://www.miami-ftlauderdale.com
http://www.GMCVB.com/
Miami's
visitor industry was on a roll this winter, with
hotels booked solid for major events such as the
Miami International Film Festival, Coconut Grove
Arts Festival, Miami International Boat Show, Ocean
Drive's Volley Palooza, Grand Prix of Miami,
Greater Miami Mardi Gras, South Beach Wine &
Food Festival, Winter Music Conference, Carnaval
Miami and Ford Championship at Doral &endash; just
to name a few.
"We
topped 10.5 million visitors and our hotels are
reporting a very strong winter season to date,"
said William D. Talbert III, Greater Miami
Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) President
& CEO. "Even if the New York Times hadn't just
announced that Miami and South Beach were hot, you
only have to try and book a hotel room to know it's
true."
As
Miami's visitor industry gears up for its summer
festival season, with hot deals and cool events
(www.festivalseason.com), hotels and other industry
partners have announced the following major
developments.
Designed to
create new and valuable business opportunities for
the rapidly growing $50 billion active and
adventure travel segment, Travel + Adventure
Business &endash; produced by VNU Expositions - is
the only international trade event where you can
meet, network and sell directly to hundreds of
professionals specifically devoted to active and
adventure travel. For resorts, adventure
outfitters, tour operators, Convention &
Visitors Bureaus, Ministries of Tourism, airlines
and other industry suppliers exhibiting at Travel +
Adventure Business will provide a focused forum
to:
> REACH
over 1,500 travel professionals, including travel
agents, corporate and incentive travel buyers,
meeting planners, outfitters, and specialty
retailers under one roof, all dedicated to the
promotion and resale of active and adventure
travel.
>
GAIN direct access to the $50 billion active and
adventure travel market
>
BUILD strategic partnerships with marketing
agents
>
MARKET your product to industry influencers and
media
>
LEARN vital skills to grow your business at
comprehensive educational seminars
As an
association sponsor of Travel + Adventure Business,
Africa Travel Association will be working closely
with event management to ensure maximum exposure
for Africa within the active and adventure travel
market. Furthermore, Travel + Adventure Business
will offer Africa Travel Association members a
discounted rate of $1600 USD for a booth (a savings
of $400 USD).
Ensure your
presence at this important event by exhibiting at
Travel + Adventure Business 2005. For more
information, please visit
www.traveladventurebiz.com or contact Regina
Franklin directly at 949/376-6246, rfranklin@vnuexpo.com
to
reserve your exhibit space.
More Than
Your Ordinary Airline. Watch for details on
Lynx Air destinations and gateway airports in our
next edition of Air Highways Magazine and on this
site. Lynx Air provides the most reliable (and in
many cases the only) passenger transportation
directly from the United States (Ft. Lauderdale) to
and from Freeport, Exuma and Cat Islands, in the
Bahamas, Cap Haitien, Haiti, Santiago, the
Dominican Republic and Grand Turk in the
Turks and Caicos
Islands. (Haiti has service from Miami as well)
Explore the Lynx Air Web
Site http://www.bahamasvg.com/lynxair.html
to learn how you can visit an island paradise
(Freeport) for ONLY $90.00 round trip per
person!
All flights are conducted in
our fast, comfortable, fully licensed turboprop
aircraft, the Fairchild Metro III. Lynx also
provides an extraordinarily large range of services
including: Subscription Mail Services, Standard and
Express Cargo.
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